Even President-elect Trump agreed a popular vote would be better. In an interview on 60 Minutes five days after Election Day, Trump said, “I would rather see it, where you went with simple votes. You know, you get 100 million votes, and somebody else gets 90 million votes, and you win.”23 (Two days later he tweeted, “The Electoral College is actually genius in that it brings all states, including the smaller ones, into play.”24)
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